Wednesday, May 8, 2013
He is the Georgia EMS Educator of the Year.
Georgia Emergency Medical Services has announced the winner of its EMS Educator of the Year award, and the recipient is from Cobb. During Thursday's Georgia Emergency Medical Services Awards Banquet at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center in Forsyth, Cobb EMS Coordinator Larry Causby was recognized for contributing "significantly to EMS education at the community, regional, and/or state level," Cobb County Fire and Emergency Services spokeswoman Denell Boyd said. "The person must be someone who not only does the job, but far exceeds the expectations of the employer and the community," she said in a statement. "The individual is an example of what a true role model/community hero is."
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
He faces charges in Cobb and Cherokee counties.
The home of the Woodstock man in custody in connection with a bomb threat that forced the evacuation of courthouses in Cobb and Cherokee counties was in foreclosure, the spokesman for the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office said late this afternoon. Moments after Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren and Marietta Police Chief Dan Flynn announced charges against 45-year-old Jody John Wilson during an afternoon press conference, Cherokee County Sheriff's Office Lt. Jay Baker issued a press release indicating that Wilson's home in the 7000 block of Surrey Drive "was scheduled to be sold on the courthouse steps." Detectives, he said, "believe that was the motive of the bomb threats." About 10:55 a.m. today, investigators with the Cobb County Sheriff's …
Just before 1 p.m. today, Col. Milton Beck with the Cobb County Sheriff's Office told Patch that officials had someone in custody.
The person in custody in connection with today's bomb threat is the owner of a local restaurant across from the Cobb County Courthouse, according to the Marietta Daily Journal. Just before 1 p.m. today, Col. Milton Beck with the Cobb County Sheriff's Office told Patch that officials had someone in custody, but did not elaborate because Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren and Marietta Police Chief Dan Flynn had scheduled a 4 p.m. press conference outside the new Cobb County Courthouse on Haynes Street. The MDJ learned that the person is Jody Wilson of Woodstock. Wilson is the owner of The Starlight Café. According to online jail records, he was arrested around 3 p.m. today. The Cobb County Courthouse and Cherokee Justice Center were evacuated …
Around 11 a.m., someone called the Cobb 911 Center and said "there was a bomb threat for Cherokee and the Cobb County Courthouses."
A spokesman with the Cobb County Sheriff's Office said officials have someone in custody in connection with today's bomb threat, which forced the evacuation of the Cobb County Courthouse and the Cherokee Justice Center. "We've got somebody in custody," Col. Milton Beck just told Patch. A press conference with Sheriff Neil Warren and Marietta Police Chief Dan Flynn is scheduled for later this afternoon, he said. No other details were immediately available. The Cobb County Courthouse and Cherokee Justice Center have been evacuated. "Around 11 a.m., there was a call into the Cobb 911 Center stating that there was a bomb threat for Cherokee and the Cobb County courthouses," said Marietta Police spokesman David Baldwin. "Both courthouses have …
The home city of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects is asking a funeral home director not to request a burial there. Should cities be allowed to turn down burial requests?
It’s been nearly three weeks since his death, but it remains unclear where the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev will be buried. The Associated Press reports that while Tsarnaev's mother says she wants the body returned to Russia, the funeral director in charge of Tsarnaev’s body believes the country will not accept the body. The funeral home director, Peter Stefan, said he plans to ask for a burial in the city where Tsarnaev lived, but officials in Cambridge, Mass., are urging him not to do so. "The difficult and stressful efforts of the citizens of the City of Cambridge to return to a peaceful life would be adversely impacted by the turmoil, protests, and wide spread media presence at such an interment," Cambridge…
Monday, May 6, 2013
Two other victims are from Austell.
A Kennesaw resident on her way to visit family in Toccoa was among the three people killed Friday night when an Amtrak train collided with their car, Stephens County coroner Christopher Stephens told WSB-TV this evening. Crystal Crews, 20, of Kennesaw, died in the crash, which occurred about 9:45 p.m. May 3. That's when a northbound train T-boned a 2008 Mazda attempting to go through an unprotected railroad crossing that was marked only with a stop sign, Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The car was pushed 300 feet before it overturned, fell into a ravine and caught fire, Shirley said. In addition to Crews, Austell residents Erich Boecklbauer, 23, and Areale Leigh Nunn, 22, was also killed, the …
The theft is one of three in Cobb that may be connected.
Investigators with the Cobb County Police Department think a parolee from Norcross is involved in at least one of three thefts that may be connected. A warrant was issued Thursday for the arrest of Angel Carmona Ortiz, who Cobb police said "acted as a look-out" during a Feb. 19 theft in Cobb while another suspect broke into the victim's SUV and stole $4,417. Ortiz was convicted of burglary in DeKalb County after a Sept. 9, 2003, incident and theft by shoplifting in Dawson County after a June 18, 2010, incident, according to Georgia Department of Corrections records. He was released from the Coffee Correctional Facility on Feb. 8, 2012. The string of Cobb thefts started Feb. 2, and they all had one common denominator: Someone was breaking …
One incident occurred in August. The other took place in October.
A Kennesaw man is accused of using texts, Facebook messages and money to proposition two teen boys for sex. Sometime between Aug. 17 and Aug. 25, Malaun A. Nelson "did communicate by text messages and cellular phone calls to the victim and propositioned him with money," according to a Cobb County criminal warrant. Nelson was 18 at the time. The boy was 15. On Oct. 26, Nelson allegedly offered $25 to a 16-year-old boy. "The accused sent several messages via Facebook," a Cobb County police officer wrote in the warrant. "The accused increased the offer to $35 and later $50." Nelson surrendered Wednesday at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center, where he was arrested on charges that include enticing a child for indecent purposes and …
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
He "confessed to the crime," said Officer Mike Bowman, a spokesman for the Cobb County Police Department.
A little more than 24 hours after authorities released a sketch of a man suspected of charging two women last Tuesday at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, the Cobb County Police Department tonight announced an arrest. William John Jacobson Jr., 34, of Dallas, is in custody at the Cobb County Adult Detention Center on charges of public indecency and simple battery, said Officer Mike Bowman, the spokesman for the department. During an interview, Jacobson "confessed to the crime," Bowman said. The women were walking in the park around 3:15 p.m. April 23 when they saw a 230-pound white or light skinned Hispanic man standing in the wood line. He was naked from the waist down, Bowman said. After knocking one of the women to the ground…
Deangelo Damond Harris was booked into the Cobb County jail on a charge of sale of marijuana.
A 17-year-old Harrison High student spent part of Friday and Saturday in the Cobb County jail after he allegedly sold marijuana to a 15-year-old student on campus. According to a Cobb County criminal warrant, someone reported their suspicions about Deangelo Damond Harris and the 15-year-old male student to an assistant principal. The administrator met with the 15-year-old boy. "While walking to (the) principal's office, the 15-year-old was asked if he had anything he should not have on campus," according to the warrant. "The student responded, 'Yes, I have drugs in my bag.' " From a bag, the student removed a plastic prescription bottle containing less than one ounce of suspected marijuana, records show. "The 15-year-old student said he …
Joe Bozeman
10:30 am on Monday, May 13, 2013
Kennesaw Patch has gotten to the point where it is about as interesting as watching paint dry. My goodness, can't you find something interesting to report on? more ›